Housing, Care and Support: Volume 7 Issue 1

Semi‐detached in the housing market

Maurice Harker

Supporting People: Issues facing registered social landlords

Tristan Wood

In 1998 the Government announced its plans to introduce a single stream of funding to finance housing‐related support services to vulnerable people in England, Wales and Northern…

User involvement in supported housing: More than just ticking the box

Marc Mordey, Jonathan Crutchfield

Service users' involvement was one of the supplementary objectives in the Supporting People monitoring framework. This article looks at what it might mean in practice. In common…

Supporting independence: The emerging role of technology

Kevin Doughty

As the life expectation of the British population increases, so will the need for community care services to minimise the effects of ill‐health and improve the quality of life for…

Fall detectors: Do they work or reduce the fear of falling?

S Brownsell, M Hawley

The fear of falling in older people can affect health, well‐being, care needs and quality of life. Fall‐monitoring equipment that can automatically raise a call for assistance is…

Housing people with complex needs: Finding an alternative to traditional service models

E Sergeant, Garry Brown

This article describes the findings of research on the housing support needs of people with challenging behaviour, undertaken between 1998 and 2001 and completed in Aberdeen as…

Empowering images: Using PhotoVoice with tenants with special needs

Richard Woolrych

The author has used photography to engage tenants in examining services and their lives, communities, hopes and dreams. PhotoVoice is a way of promoting active participation and…